Melody Generator is a tool for the construction of (tonal) melodies. Melody Generator runs on Macintosh and Windows platforms and can be downloaded freely. A melody is conceived as consisting of a number of Parts. At present Melody Generator comprises three models of Melody generation: Attraction, Chord-based, Scale-based. Each Part [...]

About 30 years ago I had a book by Walter Zimmermann called Desert Plants. It was a book of conversations with 23 american composers. A self made book whose pages seem to be the xerox-copy of the sheets the author typed on his typewriter while listening to a tape recorder. [...]

Here you can download the Proceedings of the International Conference “Composition and Experimentation in British Rock 1966-1976″ held in Cremona, Italy, 2005. There are very interesting lectures by reaserchers and musicians. Here is the index in english. Da questo sito dell’Università di Pavia si possono scaricare gli atti del convegno [...]

Miri Kat’s debut EP brings ephemeral collages, in turns frenetic and and lyrical, in a unique brand of glitchy grindcore for a post-Internet age. Miri’s hyperactive textures are rooted in original engineering, live-coded from found sounds with open source tools, derived from open ecosystems in both sounds and software. For [...]

A new work by Ronald van der Meijs. Notes from the author: This project is a first start for a new sound research project into the diversity of clouds, sun and wind in order to create a sort of ‘natural sequencer’ for an outside sound installation. This site specific instrument [...]

Avatar is video for a dance performance that conveys the formation of the human body into the avatar on the computer screen while it is inprocess of questionning it . Avatar exposes some occasions such as “loading” and “Disconnected” through its own way, while using the internet . 10 min. [...]

Tonic is a deck of cards that offer instant tips in the style of the famous Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt from the 70s. The difference is that Tonic is specific to musicians. Citing the author, Mr Scott Hughes: Some cards tell you what pitches to [...]